Eight months ago I remember reading something online (whether it was an intelligent news article or a Buzzfeed quiz, I couldn't tell you) but I saw the word "suitcase" and I thought about how much I really liked that word. People use "backpacks" or "luggage" but to me a suitcase is something old and battered…

YOU CAN FIND ME IN ST LOUIEEEE Or so Nelly said back in the ancient days of 2000. Living in Nashville has me centered among a bunch of awesome cities all within a few hours drive, so why not see what they are all about? Recently I hit up St. Louis for a stay at…

Update September 17, 2017: Folks! Over the last 24 hours I had been hearing that shadowbans were being lifted. People all over the Instagram universe were celebrating. This morning, a friend of mine texted saying that hers, too, had been lifted. Apparently, precisely two weeks nearly to the hour after you were asked to verify, it's…

Think of me as your travel Sherpa, leading you up the mountain of airline bargains. Most people don't have the patience to sit down and hunt, actually hunt, for flight deals and therefore end up overpaying. A while back I wrote that guide on how, if you're persistent enough, you can find the most rock…

Since Nashville seems to be THE PLACE TO BE, I thought my living here could be a possible writing topic. It's not some exotic corner of the earth, but it is a place that people appear to want to come on weekend trips, so here I am to the rescue. Nashville, metro population 1.8 million,…

I have been on my fair share of long haul flights. I'm not a frequent international business traveler nor do I have the luxury of jetting off whenever I want (yet!), but for an average Joe I've racked up about 20 flights that were roughly 8+ hours and to me, that warrants some kind of…

Most people may not want to spend their vacations in a remote jungle in Laos somewhere like I do, but they do usually want to get to Italy at some point in their lives. Of the major landmarks in the world, most countries have zero to one. Italy, on the other hand, is chock full…